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Man, has the @HolocaustMuseum twisted itself into a nonsensical, dangerous position -- a position it probably doesn't even believe in -- with its "don't compare the Shoah to anything else" statement. Here's the twisted history of how USHMM pwned itself to appease RWNJs:
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@HolocaustMuseum 2/
@AOC, for a long time now: "Hey everyone, refugees are being held in concentration camps!"

RWNJs: "She said ICE Nazis are gassing children in death camps!"

@AOC: "Actually, that's not what I sa..."
@HolocaustMuseum @AOC 3/
@HolocaustMuseum historian @EdnaFriedberg, sensibly: "just, please don't resort to CARELESS Holocaust analogies," because: Godwin." ushmm.org/information/pr…

(@sfmnemonic -- generically, not in response to this: "tho if a thing's ACTUALLY like Nazis it's OK to say so.")
@HolocaustMuseum @AOC @EdnaFriedberg @sfmnemonic 4/ So far so good. Then tiny, religio-Zionist, NY-based website @worldisraelnews gratuitously stirs shit by citing an unrelated, 17-month-old tweet (below) by @Becky_USHMM, a DIFFERENT HM historian: "Hey look a Holocaust Museum historian agrees with AOC!" worldisraelnews.com/us-holocaust-m…
@HolocaustMuseum @AOC @EdnaFriedberg @sfmnemonic @worldisraelnews @Becky_USHMM 5/
@Becky_USHMM, pointing out the 17-months-old-unrelated-to-AOC-etc. parts: "Um, WTAF?" rebeccaerbelding.com/statement/

@worldisraelnews: "Oops, sorry, our bad. We take it back."

So, all good, right?

Nah.
@HolocaustMuseum @AOC @EdnaFriedberg @sfmnemonic @worldisraelnews @Becky_USHMM 6/
@HolocaustMuseum, freaking out over a non-story: "Remember what @EdnaFriedberg sensibly said before about avoiding "careless" analogies? Yeah, forget that. Actually, don't make ANY "analogies between the Holocaust and other events," PERIOD, EVER...
@HolocaustMuseum @AOC @EdnaFriedberg @sfmnemonic @worldisraelnews @Becky_USHMM 7/
.@HolocaustMuseum (cont'd): "Also too? Watch us throw our own colleague/historian @Becky_USHMM (who didn't even say what World Israel News claimed she said!) under the bus -- twice!"
@HolocaustMuseum @AOC @EdnaFriedberg @sfmnemonic @worldisraelnews @Becky_USHMM 8/
Which: oh, dear @HolocaustMuseum, our indispensable friends: You don't believe this. You KNOW the Shoah wasn't a one-off that CAN'T happen again, because otherwise "Never Again" would be meaningless. ENABLING accurate analogies to current events IS your mission. You KNOW this.
@HolocaustMuseum @AOC @EdnaFriedberg @sfmnemonic @worldisraelnews @Becky_USHMM 9/
I suspect, @HolocaustMuseum, what's really happening is, you're terrified Trump + Congressional Rs + Evangelical Christian Zionist donors et al. will believe you oppose interning children or support @AOC (which: yeah!, but I get it, "development" ($) requires neutrality)...
@HolocaustMuseum @AOC @EdnaFriedberg @sfmnemonic @worldisraelnews @Becky_USHMM 10/
But if you worry that bad PR or funding cuts would be a worse השואה than watching a deranged authoritarian allocate human rights based on religion + ethnicity, witnessing children in cages, or losing a good colleague like Becky? Then you've lost your way. #NeverAgain
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